Portland Place/Joe Selvaggio Housing Initiative

Partnerships take on the affordable housing challenge

Portland Place incorporates green space and landscaping.

Portland Place, a new development covering two square blocks in the Phillips neighborhood near Abbott Northwestern Hospital, transformed substandard rental housing into owner-occupied single-family homes, twin homes, and townhomes. The project included adding green space and landscaping, as well as renovating a Victorian home. Portland Place was named a winner of the 2002 Minneapolis Committee on Urban Environment award.

Portland Place is part of a larger partnership between Abbott Northwestern Hospital and the Phillips Partnership that raised $7.5 million to improve 40 multifamily housing units, make exterior improvements to 72 single-family residences, and add new street lighting in an eight-block area west of the hospital. Nearby, the Joe Selvaggio Housing Initiative preserved more than 100 affordable rental homes.

Lead CDCs
Project for Pride in Living, Habitat for Humanity

TC LISC role